What are your thoughts about the Commissioner of Community Safety position? It’s only been around since 2022. What has it accomplished? Does it add value, or does it add yet another layer of unnecessary bureaucracy?
The public sector is good at adding to the spending. It’s less good at making cuts to services that either don’t work out, or have run their course of usefulness.
I had the same question: Do we even need a Community Safety Commissioner? I would prefer that Chiefs of Police and Fire report directly to the Mayor, rather than being layered. I am surprised that 911 is a separate department and not part of MPD. In the vast majority of U.S. cities, the 911 dispatch center is a division housed directly within the municipal police department or county sheriff's office. I had to Google what the Minneapolis Office of Emergency Management (OEM) even was. As for the Neighborhood Safety Department (NSD), that seems like the Mayor’s direct report, like the chiefs.
My view: I don't see evidence that the position has been effective, it feels like a figurehead role. The salary is outrageously high. Money could be better spent.
This is a good piece and thank you for looking into Soren Stevenson's abstention on the Community Safety Commissioner position.
People---residents and potential businesspeople---will pass on Minneapolis because it's too risky, too unstable, and not a fun place to be despite its many strengths (tight-knit community, nature, relatively well-educated population).
So if you're a developer, would you ever get near 38th & Chicago? It's the center of a racial reckoning and the most contentious corner in the history of Minneapolis. It's not an "exciting opportunity for a mixed-use high rise with ground floor retail" or whatever the developer fad of the era is.
That leaves only non-profits to fill the void. Layering in politics, in leftist cities like Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle, it's been great business to start a non-profit and immediately have continuous, seemingly unquestioned access to funds via the city, county, and state.
Agape seems adjacent to too much controversy in violence interruption and lack of expertise in building development. The city and the mayor are making the wrong choice. I see a future of endless hirings and firings of outside developers and executive directors at Agape, drama, and more and more taxpayer dollars being used to fund a boondoggle. I don't have high hopes.
I read this last week's newsletter by Linnea palmisano with sadness. She sounds like a decent hard-working council member trying to make her Ward and the rest of the city safe. Meanwhile, she has to deal with the DSA and their warped version of the future.
This goes to show, that even a very small group of people, as primarily organized by a person like CM Wonsley, ( personality disordered, as she is) can actually take down a city. The DSA aligned folks are getting exactly what they have wanted, and what they work on daily, with one activity after another.
We now have what this DSA aligned voting block ( the Chugleys) demand. They are in the process of breaking down, believing all can be replaced. They are wrong, but that will not stop their damage because they have the VOTES...by just ONE. We are just 1-2 CMs short of having a healthy, functioning, and forward thinking and behaving city in Minneapolis.
This is why this group wanted onto the City Council. Mpls has simply been an easy mark for them.
What is Democratic Socialism? - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
I don’t disagree with anything you say. I am concerned because as the 7 county metro area votes, so will go the state government. Minnesota could become unrecognizable within a generation.
“ Donors and votes follow the uncompromising members of government.” The 2 party system, right vs. left, us vs. them. This system doesn’t serve the majority of Americans and creates a few really big winners and a lot more losers.
"When someone is weighing where to relocate a business or a family, they are increasingly passing on Minneapolis."
"The city needs a coherent plan for improving its reputation and attracting the kind of businesses that create jobs. Watching City Hall, we’re confident the plan won’t originate there. "
Hard to imagine, being on the Council, one of the 6, ( as representated by Palmisano, the adults in the room) and what their experiences must be weekly now, as they are faced with one disappointing and impossible situation after another. The Mpls Times also put up the statement by CM Chughtai, with her DSA, anti police, take on the training center.
Public Safety Training Center: A Message from Council Member Linea Palmisano | Minneapolis Times
What are your thoughts about the Commissioner of Community Safety position? It’s only been around since 2022. What has it accomplished? Does it add value, or does it add yet another layer of unnecessary bureaucracy?
The public sector is good at adding to the spending. It’s less good at making cuts to services that either don’t work out, or have run their course of usefulness.
I had the same question: Do we even need a Community Safety Commissioner? I would prefer that Chiefs of Police and Fire report directly to the Mayor, rather than being layered. I am surprised that 911 is a separate department and not part of MPD. In the vast majority of U.S. cities, the 911 dispatch center is a division housed directly within the municipal police department or county sheriff's office. I had to Google what the Minneapolis Office of Emergency Management (OEM) even was. As for the Neighborhood Safety Department (NSD), that seems like the Mayor’s direct report, like the chiefs.
My view: I don't see evidence that the position has been effective, it feels like a figurehead role. The salary is outrageously high. Money could be better spent.
This is a good piece and thank you for looking into Soren Stevenson's abstention on the Community Safety Commissioner position.
People---residents and potential businesspeople---will pass on Minneapolis because it's too risky, too unstable, and not a fun place to be despite its many strengths (tight-knit community, nature, relatively well-educated population).
So if you're a developer, would you ever get near 38th & Chicago? It's the center of a racial reckoning and the most contentious corner in the history of Minneapolis. It's not an "exciting opportunity for a mixed-use high rise with ground floor retail" or whatever the developer fad of the era is.
That leaves only non-profits to fill the void. Layering in politics, in leftist cities like Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle, it's been great business to start a non-profit and immediately have continuous, seemingly unquestioned access to funds via the city, county, and state.
Agape seems adjacent to too much controversy in violence interruption and lack of expertise in building development. The city and the mayor are making the wrong choice. I see a future of endless hirings and firings of outside developers and executive directors at Agape, drama, and more and more taxpayer dollars being used to fund a boondoggle. I don't have high hopes.
I read this last week's newsletter by Linnea palmisano with sadness. She sounds like a decent hard-working council member trying to make her Ward and the rest of the city safe. Meanwhile, she has to deal with the DSA and their warped version of the future.
The next 3 years are going to suck.
This goes to show, that even a very small group of people, as primarily organized by a person like CM Wonsley, ( personality disordered, as she is) can actually take down a city. The DSA aligned folks are getting exactly what they have wanted, and what they work on daily, with one activity after another.
We now have what this DSA aligned voting block ( the Chugleys) demand. They are in the process of breaking down, believing all can be replaced. They are wrong, but that will not stop their damage because they have the VOTES...by just ONE. We are just 1-2 CMs short of having a healthy, functioning, and forward thinking and behaving city in Minneapolis.
This is why this group wanted onto the City Council. Mpls has simply been an easy mark for them.
What is Democratic Socialism? - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/what-is-democratic-socialism/
Excerpt..
"Capitalism is a system designed by the owning class to exploit the rest of us for their own profit. We must replace it with democratic socialism, .."
Abolition Working Group - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/abolition-working-group/
Excerpt..
"We are committed to the horizon of abolition and the path leading us there. Our demands:
Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero.."
I don’t disagree with anything you say. I am concerned because as the 7 county metro area votes, so will go the state government. Minnesota could become unrecognizable within a generation.
“ Donors and votes follow the uncompromising members of government.” The 2 party system, right vs. left, us vs. them. This system doesn’t serve the majority of Americans and creates a few really big winners and a lot more losers.
Both of these things are true..
Excerpts...
"When someone is weighing where to relocate a business or a family, they are increasingly passing on Minneapolis."
"The city needs a coherent plan for improving its reputation and attracting the kind of businesses that create jobs. Watching City Hall, we’re confident the plan won’t originate there. "
Hard to imagine, being on the Council, one of the 6, ( as representated by Palmisano, the adults in the room) and what their experiences must be weekly now, as they are faced with one disappointing and impossible situation after another. The Mpls Times also put up the statement by CM Chughtai, with her DSA, anti police, take on the training center.
Public Safety Training Center: A Message from Council Member Linea Palmisano | Minneapolis Times
https://minneapolistimes.com/public-safety-training-center-a-council-member-linea-palmisano/
The early adapters win.